Gearing Up For Eco-Friendly Gardening
Now that spring has sprung, it’s time to get that eco-friendly garden into shape by battling bugs with bugs, using recycled pots, encouraging birds, composting with coffee grounds, an installing a rain barrel.
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How Do Agricultural Inputs Affect Rivers, Lakes and the Ocean?
Algae blooms and the poisoning of aquatic life are just a few of the problems associated with our overuse of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizer on our farms and in our backyards.
Could Sustainable Aquaculture Be The Answer To The World’s Growing Hunger Epidemic?
Even though sustainable aquaculture is a great idea, it doesn’t come with its risks — and farmers of marine life have to be careful tending to their precious flocks…
Endangered Species On The Ropes
The Trump administration has virtually launched an assault on wildlife and endangered species protections in place in the United States for half a century…
Strawless in Seattle: Why Are Straws So Bad for the Environment?
The average American uses more than 38,000 straws over a lifetime without thinking about the implications of all this plastic going to waste and polluting our oceans.
Giant Iguana Being Nursed Back To Health in Florida
Wildlife rescuers found a six foot long iguana with arrow wounds wandering around the wilds of South Florida and are now hoping to get “Godzilla” back to health…
Lord God Bird Redux: Is the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Really Back?
Birders are keeping hope alive that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker will re-appear “on the wing” somewhere in the swamps of the Southeastern U.S.
Delisting the Yellowstone Grizzly: Good News or Bad?
Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population has bounced back since the mid-1970s, but environmentalists think the iconic predator still needs federal protection…
Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later
These days, wildlife is thriving around the site of the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine three decades ago. Biologists say the lack of people in the “Exclusion Zone” thirty kilometers around reactor has made it easier for the animals that did survive — and their progeny — to now flourish.
Whazzup with ANWR?
Senate Democrats Michael Bennet and Ed Markey introduced legislation last December calling for permanently designating the most sensitive sections of ANWR as wilderness off limits to development.